Cold War Photographic Library

Photographs relating to the Cold War

Listed below are images from the Lashmar Photo Archive that will be of particular interest to researchers gathering information on the period of the Cold War, especially spy flights and the Cuban missile crisis.

MRBM Site No 1 at San Cristobal. 5 MRBMs are apparent along with missile ready tent. Low Level – oblique pic. NA

MRBM Site No 1 at San Cristobal. 5 MRBMs are apparent along with missile ready tent. Low Level – oblique pic. Close up of above. NA

IRBM Missile Site. With slash marks. U2 pic. NA

Soviet shipping to Cuba. Summer 1962. low-level. NA

Missile Equipment. Mariel Port facilities. 4 Nov 1962. U2. NA

Various unmarked U2 pics of missile related sites. NA

Harbour shot high level – Cuba? NA.

Soviet Ship ‘Volgoles’ en-route to Cuba. Four Missiles can be seen on board. NA.

Russian Ship in Casilda Port. RF101 photo at low level. NA.

Other images

Soviet nuclear test site. (Kapustin Yar?) U2

San Diego Naval Air Station January 1958

General pictures

Bunch of unmarked recon photos. Possibly some come from the early SAC bombing exercises. One pic also has water buffalo marked. Includes negatives.
Photo recon pictures taken of harbour? By a Canberra. PRO – Public Record office. (Now UK National Archive)

Cuban Missile Crisis Kennedy war cabinet

Sculthorpe Operations. Various pictures of personnel and planes that flew overflights into USSR 1952-54.

Gen Curtis E.LeMay visits Allard works in UK. Six pix. (Copyright John Farthing – refer to James Oliver).

Gen Curtis E.LeMay with Frederick S.Wacker, President of Sports Car Club of America at Offutt Air Force Base. Prob 1952. Wacker sitting in Allard? LeMay standing next to car. Aeroplane in background. (copyright Wacker)

Gen Curtis E.LeMay on board ship 2 Aug 1954. NA.

Gen Curtis E.LeMay, close up and in full decorated uniform. Late 1950s? NA.

Gen Curtis E.LeMay as four star general. Making his own bullets. NA

Gen Curtis E.LeMay with Joe Charyk, Under Sec of the Air Force. 26 April 1960. NA